Synthesis and Oxygen Mobility of Bismuth Cerates and Titanates with Pyrochlore Structure.

Synthesis and study of materials based on bismuth cerates and titanates were carried out. Complex oxides BiYTiO were synthesized by the citrate route; BiCeO and BiYCeO-by the Pechini method. The structural characteristics of materials after conventional sintering at 500-1300 °C were studied.

Effect of Sterilization Methods on Electrospun Scaffolds Produced from Blend of Polyurethane with Gelatin.

Fibrous polyurethane-based scaffolds have proven to be promising materials for the tissue engineering of implanted medical devices. Sterilization of such materials and medical devices is an absolutely essential step toward their medical application. In the presented work, we studied the effects of two sterilization methods (ethylene oxide treatment and electron beam irradiation) on the fibrous scaffolds produced from a polyurethane-gelatin blend.

Structural and Transport Properties of E-Beam Sintered Lanthanide Tungstates and Tungstates-Molybdates.

Lanthanide tungstates and molybdates are promising materials for hydrogen separation membranes due to their high protonic conductivity. A promising approach to fabricating ceramics based on these materials is radiation thermal sintering. The current work aims at studying the effect of radiation thermal sintering on the structural morphological and transport properties of (Nd,Ln)(W,Mo)O as promising materials for hydrogen separation membranes.